The projective Lorentzian space is a closed Euclidean ball

Let Hnd\mathrm{H}^d_n be the space of degree-dd homogeneous polynomials in nn variables, and let Lnd\mathrm{L}^d_n be the cone of Lorentzian polynomials in Hnd\mathrm{H}^d_n. Let PLnd\mathbb{P}\mathrm{L}^d_n denote the image of Lnd\mathrm{L}^d_n in the projectivization of Hnd\mathrm{H}^d_n. Ball conjecture. The space PLnd\mathbb{P}\mathrm{L}^d_n is homeomorphic to a closed Euclidean ball. The space is already known to be compact and contractible; the conjecture identifies its full topological type.

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Petter Brändén and June Huh, “Lorentzian polynomials”, arXiv:1902.03719 (2024).

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